Saturday, July 5, 2014

Richard Seymour, Against Austerity: How We Can Fix the Crisis They Made

Against Austerity is a blistering, accessible and invigorating polemic
against the current political consensus. Deploying his renowned power of
razor-sharp polemic Richard Seymour charts the role of austerity in
radically reducing living standards, fracturing established political
structures, and creating simmering social alienation and explosions of
discontent.

But Against Austerity goes further – making a bold
theoretical intervention on the question of challenging austerity and
creating radical alternatives. Beginning with an analysis of current
class formation and dominant ideology, Seymour issues a call to arms,
mapping a new strategy to unite the left.

Along the way, he
tackles the vexed question of achieving social change, in particular
issues of reform and social revolution. In an age characterised by the
paucity and inadequacy of mainstream analysis, Against Austerity points a
way forward to revive the left and create a new spirit of collective
resistance.